Arts Learning

Quantitative outcomes 1. 38 youth participating as actors (30), assistants to artistic staff (2) and tech support (6) 2. 700 audience members attending performances 3. 30 Summer Blast youth (described in narrative) take advantage of vouchers to bring family members to performances. Qualitative outcomes1. 95% of participants say that they would refer others to YAI's programs 2. 10% of participants recruited through Summer Blast or other community outreach 3. 25% of participants first-time YAI participants. Evaluation Plan: 1) We will administer youth participant surveys at the beginning, middle, and end of the process to build accountability with every youth and their personal educational process. 2) We will also administer parent/guardian surveys regarding their children's learning experience, quality of artistic staff, communication, and overall artistic quality of the production. 3) We provide audience surveys in programs asking about the quality of the performance, the experience, and advice for future programs. Every production we have three pushes to complete surveys at the curtain speech, intermission, and post-curtain call. 4) We track participants in our our historical database of alumni and can track trends such as demographics, and those who return vs. those who are new to YAI.